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oh thank God dbrand was about this close

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to getting me lynched by an angry mob of retro gaming enthusiasts and all for

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what to prey on Gamer's nostalgic memories of a simpler Time by selling

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them these retro inspired dark plates

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and call that a dark plate let's put it aside for now and focus on the star of

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the show that whoops the world's first

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64-bit gaming console not that any of

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that really mattered it ran in 32-bit mode most of the time since it didn't

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really need either the additional memory address space or the additional

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Precision that was afforded to it by having a 64-bit chip it's just that

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Nintendo like much of the gaming industry had kind of painted themselves

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into a corner releasing 8-bit and 16-bit

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then 32-bit consoles and marketing to

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Consumers that more bits meant more performance when in fact that is not

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truly the case of course it didn't stop Nintendo from leaning super hard into

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the 64-bit branding in fact even the logo has 64 faces and 64 vertices to

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refer to the 64-bit capability of the

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machine there's actually a lot of kind of

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performance and nuts and bolts marketing going on here that you just don't see

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from Modern Nintendo I mean the frequency of the pro 94 megahertz I mean

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I'm not saying that's a bad thing to talk about it's just can you imagine Nintendo talking about the performance

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of the switch today I mean it would be a pretty verbose apology letter that's

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kind of the only thing that I could imagine them saying about it complete

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controller for every move with the unique analog control stick

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that's right one analog control stick by

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1999 when this one came out boy did they

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ever have a library of games of course

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the Nintendo 64 originally launched in 1996 and it was only a few years later

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that they released these fun colors ice

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fire smoke jungle watermelon and grape

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and I gotta tell you it's not the kind of thing that as a 90s kid myself people

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were running out and buying a new Nintendo 64 in order to get the new

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colors but if you had the new colors it was

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pretty cool even just the controllers

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I mean I didn't own one so I never got to play with the cool you know clear

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controllers or even the first party controllers but I got to Envy the kids

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who had them not everything about 90s video game

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marketing should make a return but I gotta say that's

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fantastic Series yeah

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yeah look at that anymore that's awesome it's just fun

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wow this really is complete in box whether

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it's on account of the packaging fading or something else those colors are very

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different I I was looking at the packaging thinking wow dbrand really

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didn't get the colors very right but compared to the console itself

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yeah that is

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pretty darn close obviously there's different colors of things inside which

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make it a little bit tricky but especially if you look at it next to the

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controller damn whoa Nintendo Power Magazine I

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couldn't afford Nintendo Power Magazine I was a poor kid what happens if I

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actually ship this now probably nothing a Year's subscription for 20 bucks how

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the devil did they do an entire magazine and shipping for a dollar fifty an issue

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oh oh there was other stuff to order in here oh store 64.

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now that you've got the world's best video game system get the most out of it

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I don't know if the world agreed PlayStation PlayStation one there's a

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number of reasons for that if I had to boil it down to two things I'd say

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Sony's triumph over Nintendo this generation came down to support for

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third-party game developers and the choice of a disc based storage system

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rather than a cartridge I mean as a Super Nintendo kid I never had one of

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these or a PlayStation you know I would go to friends houses with PlayStations

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and I'd go this is ridiculous the loading times when do you even play the

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game but it enabled developers to build

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much much larger experiences I mean

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Final Fantasy 7 how many cartridges would you have needed it would have been

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a 15 cartridge game and would have cost like 400 how much do you guys want these

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Collectibles right now they actually kind of suck like the quality compared

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to what you can make inexpensively these days is sort of trash but like

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they're so I don't know genuine backpack

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case 26 bucks I mean that makes our

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backpack look like a rip-off lttstore.com

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that is just about the stiffest feeling

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N64 joystick I have ever touched

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even back in 1996 I don't think I felt

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one this good oh I

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I said owned one power supply is only sort of

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external my theory seeing something like this would be that it would allow them

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to manufacture the consoles all the same and then just swap out the power

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supplies depending on the region they were going to be shipping to but

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because they region locked the consoles I don't really know what the point of

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this is just a built-in power supply with extra steps I mean maybe they found

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that the failure rates were quite high in testing and they wanted to be able to

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easily fly I don't know ah right the expansion Port this was

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used for the Nintendo disk drive which I think only got a handful of games all of

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which were Japan exclusive that that's right right didn't it get like eight

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games or something like that I don't remember how many but not very many

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basically wasn't a thing the business end was here and I think we've actually

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got a couple cartridges for today right the most common ones dbrand spent all

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their money on the consoles and couldn't afford to send us any cool cartridges uh

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let's go with Mario Kart 64. on the top there's a memory expansion Port that was

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needed for just a handful of games uh among them uh Donkey Kong 64 Perfect

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Dark it supported four controllers which was Flippin cool at the time though not

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that anyone that I knew had four controllers just because controllers

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like now were really really expensive but theoretically you could play games

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for a player um the only time I think I ever played a

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four control Fuller game was on a PlayStation with a multi-tap with one of

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my friends but we didn't have any other friends so I think it was just me him

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and his brother so we only made it to three anyway the point is the game

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supported four controllers oh there's one more expansion port to show you guys

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though the bottom of the controller was used for memory expansion so you could

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save your game like that kind of memory and then also for rumble packs oh of

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course they sent more colors okay um those ones weren't complete in box

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but yeah can I may I place has

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we have smoke

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per Smash Bros in it and we also got an

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orange one then everything's getting very chaotic over here right now I

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think of all of this was to be able to compare the colors of the dbrand dark

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plates with the original controllers and consoles smoke looks pretty darn good

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and what was the orange called again

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wow yeah yeah that does look fire now the

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question is I know I'm not in too much trouble because none of these were

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sealed in box but they're all in great condition so how much trouble would I

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get into if I were to disassemble one of them with this screwdriver

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let's put this away for now I'm not opening up any of these consoles now

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there's one color that we don't have a comparison for Atomic purple consoles

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were exceedingly rare only a handful of prototypes existed but there were

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controllers so dbrand felt like ah screw

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it we'll do an atomic purple console if you want to make your PlayStation 5 look

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all Atomic purple retro I think it looks flipping awesome I think it's

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probably the second best color I didn't think I would like ice as much

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but in person I think you're right David I'm with you

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ice looks amazing I guess we're set up

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to play on the smoke console though so why don't we do that and then I will

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just use the ice controller now you

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actually had an N64 hey yeah I remember getting mine and crying when my mom

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opened the trunk and the N64 box was there but it was just a plain black it

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was one of these cool see-through ones did you really just try to start the

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mushroom cup with me moo Farm is Elite

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Farm if you really want oh perfect I

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don't even know what button makes the cartoon ask you which one that is

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oh there's no boost I forgot uh yep oh I

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missed I missed this is not going well okay

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yeah you you do not want to lose tonight

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um oh and the checkpoint was so far back I missed again oh thank goodness I just

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made it I got time I got time are you just trying to like Bullet Bill to the

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end because I don't think that's a thing in this game oh no yeah sorry I'm not

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trying to be rude or anything but you suck listen I'm prepping for game link

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okay my controller doesn't work uh I'm straight into the wall my controller is

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legit broken yeah that sounds like cancer it's making I can't turn to the

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left okay we're gonna do full right to turn around then

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yeah you were throwing a lot of I got the little brother controller

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you did not stick drip you talked about

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how great the controller was before we

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started okay so I don't even want to hear it kabad you got this go left

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oh no I lost okay I just gotta make this

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left turn sorry because it doesn't work

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dbrand they really hooped me I gotta go

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right to go left I honestly thought you were just like

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joking maybe for the new CEO at game Throw but not it's like cheap

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my preference is blocked Port but I'll play double deck as well let's go block

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four go block yeah I want to beach home turf you want to beat me on my home term

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well you're gonna have to beat me so that's gonna be tough all right let's

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see game link is never gonna have me on yeah

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I mean not everyone can be a true gamer

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all right well thanks for having me on uh you could have at least tried to hit

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me once I did I did try did you really

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yeah oh that's me right now crying because Mario

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and this is me oh finally unboxing the

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actual product from our spot they did

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they totally did they ripped off

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the color scheme of our color block hoodie wait did they do this on purpose

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this is our ShortCircuit color block hoodie

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and they totally ripped it off this is cool they did super detailed

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x-ray scans of the PlayStation 5 so when you put these stickers on you will be

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seeing exactly what you would see if you were Superman like not creepy Superman

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who uses your power to look inside your game console and not your neighbor's

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wall gotta respect the attention to detail even the fan filters are blue

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that's cool all right dbrand you did

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pretty good today these look sick you didn't get me canceled for unboxing a

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brand new inbox n64. oh yeah they've still got the challenge to Sony's

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lawyers in binary in here so that's cute

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and you've still got to subscribe to ShortCircuit